This is pathetic. Let me wake you kids up a little bit, because you all seem to have some pretty silly ideas about the apocalypse.

There is no room for gender roles in basic survival.

Gender roles are a luxury of an organized society.

EACH AND EVERY PERSON, be it man or woman, should know everything they need to survive by themselves. That means cooking, cleaning, sewing, shooting, trapping, everything. In a survival situation, you cannot depend on the luxury of a capable partner. You may be separated, one may fall ill, or straight up die.

If you need another half to make a full set, YOU ARE USELESS AS AN INDIVIDUAL.

If you can shoot a rabbit but can't cook it, or if you can stitch wounds but not chop wood, you are a one-legged bastard in an ass-kicking contest.

Each and every one of us will have to be a force unto ourselves. Our long-term survival depends on it.

Any woman can shoot a gun as well as a man, and any man can sew and cook as well as a woman. There is no excuse not to learn. It's not like we'll forget how to do one if we learn to do another.

And as for gender roles? Fuck you with the man-does-hunting woman-does-sewing bullshit. You're a fool if you think an gender-organized regimen is either necessary or advantageous. You're a bigger fool if you think a survival situation will grant you time to plan who does what. You'd both better be equally capable to do whatever needs doing, whenever it needs doing, at a moment's notice.

I consider a woman who can't hunt and a man who can't sew to be equally huge embarrassments.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26339639

don't get your panties in a wad.. we know we all must do many things.. I am speaking of the ones who can do NOTHING!!!

Quoting: Mia41

You mean don't get my boxers in a twist ;)

The ones who can do nothing will die. The ones who can do some things but not others will die slightly later. Only those capable of providing for themselves, completely, will survive, let alone have the luxury of helping others.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26339639

absolutely false.

according to your post, 99.99999% of women shall perish. why?

because women are not cut out for infantry. simple and true. it isn't sexist , it is REAL. If you don't understand this, you haven't served. Women do not have the build, nor the resolve to kill without emotion. The TV and media teaches differently, but only idiots believe the crap about a woman kicking a 250lb marine in the groin and then laughing as he falls to the ground. ....in reality, he doesn't fall...HE GETS PISSED and then quickly knocks the woman unconscious.

the truth of the matter is simple. TEAMS will survive. MIXED TEAMS OF THOSE WITH THEIR PARTICULAR STRENGTH.

'lone wolfs' will survive, but they will not thrive. ...they will also need others at times to continue.

small groups of clear thinking individuals will survive. ...

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17469684

Bullshit. You sign up for infantry. Infantry is an attacking force. It is not the same as self-defense. You are the aggressor in that situation.

Women are just as capable of pulling the trigger in a self-defensive situation, and that has been proven statistically in a myriad of stand-your-ground cases.

Especially when it comes to protecting theirs. I'd even hazard to say, give both a weapon, and a women with children to defend is far more dangerous than a man.